Thursday, December 18, 2008

Keitai Shosetsu: The Japanese Cell Phone Novel

In Japan, there is a rising popularity in novels created by Japanese girls written on their cell phones. Stories often feature content which is controversial in the Japanese culture so many authors write under pseudonyms. The novels are also being criticized for being inauthentic and having less merit for being written on a cellphone instead of more traditional methods. An abstract of an article from The New Yorker.

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